It's been five months since Colonel Lawrence came to the desert of the Persian Gulf.

He began to regret taking on this ghost errand a little.

and the Chinese troops he encountered in the Ming Dynasty, although the will to fight was resolute – and this will became more and more resolute as the war went on – but this could not change the shortcomings of the Chinese soldiers in terms of training and so on. Lawrence came into contact with the captured soldiers of the New Ming Army, and found that many of them were illiterate, and although it was evident that they had received a certain amount of training in infantry tactics, they could not calculate coordinates at all, so they could not call for artillery support, and many of them could not read the map, so the officers could only move around the battlefield after being killed, and they had no will to continue fighting, but they did not play a role.

Therefore, the new Ming army is an army that can exert extraordinary combat ability if there are still officers who survive, and once no officers survive, the remaining soldiers can only perform simple tactical tasks such as holding their positions and "advancing to a place where there are gunshots".

In addition, the common problem of the new Ming army is that the marksmanship is generally not good, and there is no way to take the US army beyond a certain combat distance.

Of course, not all of the new Ming troops are like this, and Lawrence has also encountered very elite troops in Ming, and those troops are terrifying.

But now, the Arab guerrillas under Lawrence's command are facing the Chinese army, and it is difficult to say how the marksmanship is, because the firepower is so fierce, I don't know whether it was hit by accurate shooting or casually swept to death, but from the perspective of the tactical literacy and fighting will of the grassroots soldiers, it can be regarded as an elite division in any country.

In terms of weapons, although the Arab guerrillas were supported by the United States, all of which were American weapons, the enemy used a large number of mechanized troops because they used oil on the spot, while the Arabs had to transport oil from other places.

In the face of the completely German-style infantry division of the African Army (Germany called the armored chasseur division, but the African army did not use this name, after all, the Chinese have no concept of chasers), even if the Arabs have the weapons provided by the Americans, they are a little weak.

Fortunately, the transportation capacity of the African army is still relatively poor, and it cannot drive straight into the desert area for sweeping, and can only stick to the west coast of the Persian Gulf and the two river basins. But Lawrence was well aware that once the Afrika Army was equipped with enough trucks and more refineries were put into operation, the days of the Arabs would come to an end.

Lawrence was given the order to create as much tactical advantage as possible and to create conditions for the Americans to establish a territorial confinement of the Arab states in the Middle East. But in this situation, it was not easy to create a tactical advantage, and Lawrence tried his best to force the Afrika Army to retreat from a few strongholds deeper into the Arabian desert.

In another time and space, if you look at the map of the Middle East, you will find that the dividing line between countries has a lot of personality, often very straight lines, and very geometric turns, most notably the border between Jordan and Iraq, which is reminiscent of battlements.

In fact, in the first decades of the 20th century, there were only two countries in the Middle East that could be counted as states, one was Egypt and the other was Iran, and the vast land between the two countries was theoretically the territory of the Ottoman Empire, but after World War I, the Ottoman land collapsed, and this vast territory actually became a "terra nullius" for the great powers.

Britain and France, who helped the Arabs fight the Ottoman rulers during World War I, turned into colonizers who oppressed the Arabs.

It was only in 1932 that Saudi Arabia completed the reunification of the country and gained partial sovereignty from Britain after Britain and France divided the spoils.

But in this time and space, Saudi Arabia does not exist zài – because Osman died too late. However, the Ottomans were still the victors of the First World War, so the Middle East has not yet been drawn.

Now, the Americans are planning to draw a good picture of the sphere of influence in the Middle East with Lin Youde - they want to do this in the final stage of the war, but Lin Youde has been talking about him left and right, and in the final peace negotiations, only the dividing line between Egypt and Israel has been finalized, and the boundaries of the other parts are naturally to be determined. However, Lin Youde and the Americans had an agreement that the issue of drawing the line would begin to be discussed immediately after the establishment of the United Nations, and the establishment of the United Nations had already been finalized on January 1, 1950 at the time of the peace talks, and before that, the first United Nations General Assembly would be convened to determine the matters related to the establishment of the United Nations.

In other words, before that, who occupies the most land constitutes a fait accompli, and the subsequent delineation meeting will have an advantage.

The Americans know very well that the African armies in the Middle East, as well as the Israeli armies, will aggressively attack the Arab world before the issue of the borders is officially discussed.

Lawrence's task was to prop up the Arabs against the inevitable onslaught of the Afrika Army, and if possible, it would be better to take back a few of the oil wells.

Of course, Lin Youde will not allow this to happen, and the Chinese country that will be established in the Persian Gulf in the future must include the vast majority of the oil-producing areas on the west coast of the Persian Gulf, which is the basis for Lin Youde to establish an exchange and payment system similar to the Bretton Woods system.

Therefore, although Lin Youde's company is now full of orders, the African Army still has a sufficient number of German weapons.

And among them are some of the new weapons that the German army has just been equipped.

Not long ago, while leading a reconnaissance team himself, Lawrence had seen new weapons he had never seen before marching with the rest of the Afrika Army.

It looked like a self-propelled gun, but the hull was noticeably longer than a regular self-propelled gun.

Lawrence did not know what the enemy was planning to do when he drove the artillery into the desert, according to Lawrence's understanding, the artillery was either used to attack the fortifications or to defend against the attack of large armies, and such a target as the guerrillas organized by Lawrence to help the Arabs did not use artillery at all.

The Arab guerrillas were based at a great distance, and now they were staying in a small oasis that were only a makeshift camp, and there were many such camps in the desert, but whenever they could find a ground object that could be used as a landmark, the Arabs would store some supplies underneath for a rainy day.

The Arab guerrillas under Lawrence's command never stayed in the same makeshift camp for more than three nights.

By this time they had only been at the camp for one night.

"We are attacking tonight, and the target is the enemy's forward outpost fifty kilometers southwest of us." Lawrence said to the map he had cut out of the sand with a tree branch.

At this time, the lookout post suddenly shouted: "Plane! ”

"Big and small?" Lawrence asked aloud in English, and his interpreter immediately translated the question.

"Little sir." After a grunt at the Arab lookout post, the interpreter said.

At this time, the lookout post shouted and rolled down from the small mound he was looking at, and Lawrence knew that the enemy plane had dived.

He watched the Arabs scatter and hide, but he was very calm - if he was lying on the ground, he could still be strafed by the plane, and the correct thing to do was to see the trajectory of the plane's dive and avoid the plane's strafing area as much as possible.

He looked up at the enemy planes that were swooping down, and he was pounced and rolled in the right direction.

Lawrence dodged the strafing of enemy planes without any suspense.

"Count the casualties." He ordered, "This place has been discovered by enemy planes, and we will leave in twenty minutes." Watch out for the lookouts, enemy planes may return. See clearly. ”

But the enemy aircraft did not return.

Lawrence watched as the partisans loaded the munitions and supplies stored in the caves into large canvas bags hanging from the sides of the horses, and calculated the timing of the arrival of the enemy air raids.

Just then, he heard the sound of cannonballs breaking through the sky.

"I see." Lawrence muttered quietly, the plane must have been in his head for a while before it came down and dived, and the damn lookout must have been distracted, but Lawrence wondered why the plane had to dive down to startle the snakes, was it because he was afraid that he would hide in the hole to avoid the shelling-it seemed to make sense.

"Don't be afraid ......"

As soon as Lawrence finished speaking, the first shot fell.

Lawrence, who had experienced the war, was not in a hurry, he knew that with the few cannons he saw yesterday, he could not reach a high density of fire, and his men had plenty of time to dodge.

"Don't panic! Find good cover and then hide, the crater from the first wave of enemy bombs will be good......"

Lawrence began to feel that something was wrong.

There's a lot of cannonballs whirring in the sky......

The next moment, a dense rain of bullets fell.

This is a 155-caliber heavy artillery shell, in another time and space in World War II, the high-explosive grenade fired by the Tiger Hunter can lift the American Willis Jeep directly to the roof of the roadside, and the unlucky jeep was also photographed by a photojournalist. Since then, together with the small Japanese tank that was carried on the shoulders of the US M4 Sherman, it has become a star among the small vehicles of World War II.

Although the Willis Jeep is not heavy, and the empty car is only half a ton, it also shows how powerful the high-explosive shells fired by the 128mm gun are. The caliber and power of the artillery never increase linearly, the explosive power of the 155mm howitzer is even more terrifying, and the shock wave formed by the eight-kilogram TNT charge is enough to pose a fatal threat to soft targets within a radius of forty or fifty meters - this is the charge standard of the US military, and the German army likes to fill it with TNT because of Lin Youde's personal preference, so the power is even more frenzied.

Basically, a 155 pomegranate falls in the circle of kick-off in the middle of a football field, and the forwards and center forwards of both teams on the field are basically dead, and the defenders and goalkeepers depend on luck.

Now, Lawrence is being smashed in the face by such shells.

The Arab guerrillas he had been training for so long and "had actual combat experience" fell apart in an instant, scattered and fled, and then disappeared into the smoke and flash of the explosion. Lawrence knew that even if he could keep half of the men after the bombardment, he would never be able to unite them into an arm.

In fact, Lawrence was skeptical that anyone would survive.

He even suspected that he would not be able to survive himself-

At this moment, a shockwave surging from behind him blew him up like a leaf.

Then Lawrence lost consciousness.

(I watched the girl blow the trumpet 11 words.,Kyoto's sugar is good.,I'll update a chapter to calm down first)R1148